Davo
Well-known member
I'll probably get burned at the stake for this but the real problem with America is that it is full of Americans. As a country we have decided that we don't want to find out any information for ourselves. The first thing that hits the airwaves is the truth......if it is printed somewhere (especially the web), it is the truth. Americans have gotten to the point that we feel we are owed something for just being American. There is an overwhelming lack of accountability. We love to blame everyone and everything else when we are at fault. Ex: New Orleans and Katrina, instead of just walking out, thousands of people waited to be rescued, wth, you have two legs, walk. No no, let's blame the gov't for not rescuing us faster, because we shouldn't have to walk anywhere, even if we live in a dang bowl. We decide that we can rack up tons of debt and buy houses that we really can't afford, why not, everyone else is doing it and when the bottom falls out the government should be there to rescue us because we were taken advantage of by some lender. No one held a gun to your head to finance a home with a stupid rate that would increase to way more than you even earn. I think that you should not be able to have children if you can't financially support them and if your IQ is less than your shoe size. And if you do have kids and can't afford them or are a lifetime welfare recipient, you can't have more kids and get more money. Get the hell off of welfare and get a job....instead of standing at the traffic light by Walmart begging for money, go inside and fill out an application. Don't expect me to pay for your mistakes because I decided not to take a stupid risk. Bad choices should have bad consequences. We have let a lot of people slide on things that they shouldn't have. Americans feel that they can go get drunk and drive home, hell, they might only get a suspended license and have to pick up some trash, but the weather is nice out. Why not take, not impound, I mean confiscate the vehicle they are driving, give a $10,000 fine and a minimum of 1 year in jail, first offense. I think that you should have to pass some sort of intelligence test to be able to vote. Just because you are 18 doesn't mean you know shite from shinola. Heck, the last election proved that. When you can interview people on the street and 1/2 of them can't even identify the candidates by a photograph or have no clue what they stand for, well, you get my point. This one really pees me off. Someone can weigh 500lbs, smoke 4 packs of cigs a day and drink liquified crisco. Sure, he'll have diabetes, COPD, and about 1,000 other disabilities, but you know what, the insurance companies will have to pay his claims and he won't be forced to stop any of the things causing his problems. He won't even have to lose weight, wth. Wow, that turned into sort of a rant. But this country really needs to pull up its pants, quit worrying about offending someone, and get its act together and move on. Of course I could go on and on, but....
